Format:
Online-Ressource (328 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107021433
Series Statement:
Problems of International Politics
Content:
Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish changed at the turn of the twenty-first century
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Description based upon print version of record
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Regimes of ethnicity: comparative analysis of Germany, Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia, and TurkeyThe challenges to the monoethnic regime in Germany, 1955--1982 -- The construction of an assimilationist discourse and political hegemony: transition from a monoethnic to an antiethnic regime in Germany, 1982--2000 -- Challenges to the ethnicity regime in Turkey: Alevi and Kurdish demands for recognition, 1923--1980 -- From social democracy to Islamic multiculturalism: failed and successful attempts to reform the ethnicity regime in Turkey, 1980--2009 -- The nation that wasn't there? Sovetskii Narod discourse, nation-building, and passport ethnicity, 1953--1983 -- Ethnic diversity and state-building in post-Soviet Russia: removal of ethnicity from the internal passport and its aftermath, 1992--2008 -- Dynamics of persistence and change in ethnicity regimes.
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Cover; Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey; Problems of International Politics; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, Graphs, and Maps; List of Abbreviations; Germany; Turkey; The Soviet Union and the Russian Federation; Acknowledgments; PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND EMPIRICAL OVERVIEW; 1 Regimes of Ethnicity; The Puzzle of Persistence and Change in State Policies toward Ethnicity; The Argument: Explaining Persistence and Change in Regimes of Ethnicity
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Regimes of Ethnicity as a New Typology of Nationhood: Monoethnic, Multiethnic, and Antiethnic Regimes along Axes of Membership and ExpressionEthnicity: A Social "Category" Based on a "Subjective Belief in Common Descent"; The Cluster of Policies and Institutions Symptomatic of Ethnicity Regimes: The Difficulty of Changing Even One Policy; Modes of Accommodating Diversity in Different Regimes of Ethnicity: Assimilation, Segregation, and Consociation; Ethnicity Regimes in Germany, the Soviet Union, Post-Soviet Russia, and Turkey
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Immigrant, Autochthone, or the Greatest Ethnic Demographic Challenge?The Key Policies of Contestation; Alternative Explanations of Persistence and Change in Regimes of Ethnicity: State Collapse, Border Change, International Actors, Norms, and Global Waves; A Theory of Ethnic Regime Change: Counterelites, New Discourse on Ethnicity and Nationality, and Political Hegemony Explain Change in Key Policies; Why These Elements Are Separately Necessary and Together Sufficient for Change: The Significance of Interests, Ideas, and Constraints
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A Brief Overview of Failed and Successful Challenges to the Ethnicity Regimes in Germany, the Soviet Union, Post-Soviet Russia, and Turkey since the 1950sGermany, 1949-2005; The Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, 1953-1997; Turkey, 1950-2009; Persistence and Transformation in Regimes of Ethnicity: Contributions to Political Science and Comparative Politics of Ethnicity and Nationhood; PART II: GERMANY; 2 The Challenges to the Monoethnic Regime in Germany, 1955-1982; Monoethnic Regime Encounters Ethnic Diversity: The German Nation and Its "Guests" during the Recruitment Period, 1955-1973
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Counterelite without New Ideas in Power and Failed Attempts at Reform: Social-Liberal Coalitions Approach to the New Ethnic Diversity, 1969-1982Bund Länder Kommission (1977) versus The Kühn Memorandum (1979): Segregation/Exclusion or Assimilation/Inclusion?; Political Parties' Discourses on Nationhood: The Relationship among Ethnicity, Immigration, Demography, and Security in the Constitution of the Nation; Ethnicity, Immigration, and Asylum: The Discursive Bloc Imposed by the BLK; Demographic Deficit: An Existential Threat to the Nation and Two Solutions
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Securitized and Internationalized Nature of the Discourse on Guest Workers and Unemployment
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Regimes of ethnicity: comparative analysis of Germany, Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia, and Turkey -- The challenges to the monoethnic regime in Germany, 1955--1982 -- The construction of an assimilationist discourse and political hegemony: transition from a monoethnic to an antiethnic regime in Germany, 1982--2000 -- Challenges to the ethnicity regime in Turkey: Alevi and Kurdish demands for recognition, 1923--1980 -- From social democracy to Islamic multiculturalism: failed and successful attempts to reform the ethnicity regime in Turkey, 1980--2009 -- The nation that wasn't there? Sovetskii Narod discourse, nation-building, and passport ethnicity, 1953--1983 -- Ethnic diversity and state-building in post-Soviet Russia: removal of ethnicity from the internal passport and its aftermath, 1992--2008 -- Dynamics of persistence and change in ethnicity regimes.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139842617
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107021433
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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